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Continuing the mission of the highly successful First Eric Baum (Program Co-chair), Baum Research Enterprises
and Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Tsvi Achler, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
academic and industry researchers involved in serious David Orban, Singularity University
scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the Sarah Bull, National ICT Australia
Dec. 15, 2009 Acceptance Notifications Emanuel Kitzelmann, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Jan. 1, 2010 Camera-ready Copy
Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Shane Legg, University College London, UK
Artificial General Moshe Looks, Google Research, USA
Intelligence András Lörincz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Hassan Mahmud, Australian National University, Australia
The original goal of the AI field was the construction of
Eric Nivel, Reykjavík University, Iceland
thinking machines: computer systems with human-like
Jan Poland, ABB Research, Zurich, Switzerland
general intelligence. Due to the difficulty of this task, for
Brandon Rohrer, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
the last few decades the majority of AI researchers have
Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
focused on what has been called narrow AI: the
Robert Schapire, Princeton University, USA
production of AI systems displaying intelligence regarding
Lokendra Shastri, Infosys Technologies, India
specific, highly constrained tasks.
Ray Solomonoff, Oxbridge Research, UK
In recent years, however, more and more researchers Rich Sutton, University of Alberta, Canada
have recognized the necessity, and feasibility of returning Kristinn Thorisson, Reykjavík University, Iceland
to the original goals of the field. Increasingly, there is a Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA
call for a transition back to confronting the more difficult Les Valiant, Harvard University, USA
issues of human level intelligence and more broadly Marco Wiering, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
artificial general intelligence (AGI). Mary Anne Williams, Sydney University of Technology, Australia
David Wolpert, NASA Ames Research Center, USA